Wal-Mart advocate, maker of film quits

[Omaha Steve]

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Wal-Mart advocate, maker of film quits

BY STACEY ROBERTS

Posted on Thursday, October 12, 2006

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Independent filmmaker Ron Galloway has resigned from the board of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. ’s advocacy group Working Families for Wal-Mart.

Galloway, who produced a documentary last year praising the company at the same time that critics were becoming more vocal, told the Los Angeles Times that he was troubled by Wal-Mart’s plan to set wage caps for hourly employees.

But announcements Wednesday from Working Families for Wal-Mart and the Bentonville-based retail giant say the reason for Galloway’s departure is a difference of opinion on environmental issues.

Galloway left the national steering committee of Working Families for Wal-Mart over policy differences, group spokesman Kevin Sheridan told the Los Angeles Times.

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1. Yup! Been a bad day for Wally World

with the judgement in PA on top of this..... Oh, darn....